{"nrhp_refnum":"88002536","name":"Lower Price Hill Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by W. 8th, State, Burns, and English St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cincinnati","county":"Hamilton County","state":"OH","lat":39.103767259500046,"lon":-84.55203192348795,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-11-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A compact residential and commercial historic district of about 25 acres in Cincinnati, Ohio, at the eastern foot of Price Hill just west of the Mill Creek industrial valley. It holds 206 buildings, mostly brick, built largely in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.","why_significant":"The district is significant for its concentration of Italianate brick multi-family residences, which make up about 85% of the housing stock, along with churches, schools, commercial and industrial buildings in other styles. Its dense, unified streetscapes retain a high degree of integrity. It also reflects a self-sufficient working neighborhood that grew beside the Mill Creek valley's canal, railroad and industry.","narrative":"Lower Price Hill is a tightly packed Cincinnati neighborhood of roughly 25 acres at the eastern foot of Price Hill, beside the Mill Creek industrial valley. Its 206 buildings are mostly brick, and most were built to the sidewalk on long, narrow lots. Italianate multi-family houses dominate, with bracketed metal cornices and stone or metal window surrounds, reflecting the area's main growth in the 1870s and 1880s. Other building types add variety: corner commercial blocks with cast iron or stone storefronts, one-story brick rows, two churches, and two schools. Notable examples include the terra cotta Neo-Classical West End Bank Building, the Queen Anne and Colonial Revival Radel Funeral Home, and the 1930 Oyler School, designed by Samuel Hannaford & Sons and decorated with Rookwood tile. Industrial buildings along Burns Street show how factories and homes once stood side by side. The district was listed for this cohesive architecture and the intact streetscapes built mostly by 1938.","period_of_significance":"Begins with the first subdivision and construction of St. Michael's Church and ends in 1938 (exact start year not visible in the provided text)","architect_builder":"Samuel Hannaford & Sons (Oyler School)","architectural_style":"Italianate, with Queen Anne, Classical Revival, Neo-Classical, Art Deco/Italian Romanesque, Gothic Revival and Art Moderne examples","criteria":[],"status_note":"Contains 196 contributing buildings and 16 noncontributing resources, including 4 sites from demolitions. Some upper stories and storefronts on W. Eighth Street are vacant or boarded up.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:14.957663-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/88002536.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002536/0c94624cc4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002536/0c94624cc4-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"Nyttend, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Storrs_at_State_in_Lower_Price_Hill.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71988931","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Price_Hill_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6693727"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/hamilton-county/lower-price-hill-historic-district-88002536/"}